Pushkin.

2023's been a hell of a year for singer-songwriter Noah

Colin. Just three years ago he started uploading snippets of his indie folk songs to

Tik-Toc while waiting out the pandemic at his dad's house in rural Vermont. Those songs

quickly caught fire across social media and eventually turned into Noah's most

recent album, Stick Season and after releasing collaborations with Casey Musgraves, Hozier and Post Malone,

Noah's amassed 4 billion streams globally. It's no surprise that last month he was nominated

for the best new artist Grammy.

But while Noah's often called the breakout star of the year, he's actually not a music industry

rookie.

He signed a republic records in 2017, initially working as a songwriter in New York, where he learned the intricacies of writing pop music.

It wasn't until the music industry shut down in 2020 that he was able to apply those techniques he learned as a songwriter to his own work as a singer-songwriter.

On today's episode, Leah Rose talks to Noah Khan about navigating his often overwhelming newfound

success and how he feels about being labeled the new quote-unquote sensitive woodsman singer-songwriter

de jure. Noah also opens up about initially being a Z

Noah also opens up about initially being embarrassed about his singing voice and his plans for evolving his sound on his next album.

This is Broken Record. Liner Notes for the Digital Age.

I'm Justin Richmond.

Here's Leah Rose's conversation with Noah Kahn.

When you were writing Stick season, did you have any overarching guiding principles?

You know, I think like in hindsight it's always easy to say like I wanted to write about

loneliness during a lonely time or I think like I had been feeling lonely for a lot of my

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